It has just been revealed that Tekken 8 has already sold three million copies, passing the milestone inside a one-year window. The successful fighting title is also getting a new DLC fighter in the form of Anna Williams, a classic character who has been a stalwart figure in the franchise since the original Tekken in 1994.
Bandai Namco released an exhilarating gameplay trailer to showcase the imminent arrival of Anna Williams, who will join the game on March 31 for pass owners and April 3 for everyone else.
Blast From The Past
It hasn’t been all that long since Anna Williams was last in a Tekken title. She surfaced in Tekken 7 as a DLC character and was in the starting line-up in Tekken 6. Her impending release in Tekken 8 was heralded by a three-minute gameplay trailer published recently by Bandai Namco:
Anna Williams will appear at the end of March wielding her trusty rocket launcher, but in a switch-up to her moveset, she’ll be wielding that bazooka as a melee weapon as well as a ranged accessory.
The trailer above showcases a classic clash between Anna and Nina Williams. These sisters have been an iconic duo for years, but Nina has arguably enjoyed a little more time in the limelight. In 2005, she headlined a game on PlayStation 2 named Death by Degrees.
If you could complete the game, you’d unlock Anna as a playable skin, which represents her assuming the role of second fiddle.
Despite never being a Tekken fan, I somehow managed to find and play Death by Degrees when it came out twenty years ago, and for some reason, it has stuck with me all this time.
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This game plateaued at 3 million all fighting games seem to be at such excluding discounts but the DLC sales won’t match. Tekken 8 fell off Clive hurt that game even more. They need Yujiro Hanma now. This game has just fallen off hard honestly all fighting games have just really hard.
It past 3 million last year what are they hyping up? It remained the same? This game fell off and the shills keep defending it. It’s time Koei Tecmo do what’s right and bring Tomonobu Itagaki back for a new Dead Or Alive and Ninja Gaiden but for sure Dead Or Alive.
The game sold 3 million last year meaning this game hasn’t sold since early last year that’s bad. Companies need to stop glossing up the numbers it’s not good. Netherrealm did this with the flop MK1 now Bandai with Tekken and Microsoft with Avowed. Bandai made a horrible mistake putting money into this and Unknown 9 but pulling funding on things like Naruto, One Piece, and Shonen Jump. They should have invested more in Sparking Zero which is what over 5 million hopefully Bleach can do the same or close. Honestly Bandai should pull the plug on Tekken if it’s this bad. If sales of the base game haven’t gone up how bad are the DLC sales I know no one cared about Clive and other micro transactions turned off people from the game not to mention shills. You know it’s bad when one of the producers is asking if people would rather they reveal the entire season pass ahead of time instead of individually probably so guests especially can stir hype ahead of time. A Shonen Jump crossover game would have made money now!